Fishing-float.



PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907.

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FISHING FLOAT. APPLICATION FILED pom. 100a.

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WILLIAM SPENCER PETTIS, JR, OF PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI.

FISHING-FLOAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12,1907.

Application filed October 5, 1906. Serial No. 337,552.

. T ctZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SPENCER PETTIS, Jr, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Pass Christian, in the county of Harrison and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and Improved Fishing-Float, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has to do with the means commonly employed for fastening a fishingfloat on the line; and the object had in view is the provision of new and improved means of the character stated.

The invention resides in a peculiar form of detachable ring arranged on the quills or stems of the float for attaching it to the fishing-line, and consists in forming the attaching-ring of helicut coils of wire having an intermediate convolution thereof bent into loops or clamping form adapting the ring to be fastened on the line and carried thereby ready to be slipped 011 the float stenis or quills, eifecting secure connection of the up per and lower ends of the float in desired adjustment on the line.

My improved float-attaching ring is shown by the accompanying drawings and its construction hereinafter fully described, the novelty thereof being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view illustrating my invention in use. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively perspective and. side views of the construction of line-attaching rings shown on the float-stems in Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 show, respectively, top and side views of the ring constructed with line-gripping eyes. Figs. 6 and 7 show, respectively, similar rings constructed with a line-gripping eye in another form. Figs. 8 and 9 show, respec tively, top and side views of a ring constructed with a line-eye somewhat similar in form to the eye illustrated. by Figs. 2 and 3.

My invention comprehends in its broad aspect line-attaching rings for fishing-floats constructed with means whereby itmay be afliXed to the line and carried thereon, facilitating and adapting quick and secure fastening of the float on the line.

In the practice of my invention I construct the line-fastening ring of wire bent into helical form or spiral convolutions, as shown by the several figures of my drawings.

One convolution of the ring is bent into a loop or eye to secure the line and preferably into the projecting circular form of eye A shown on the ring B. (See Figs. 2 and 3.)

float on the line by simply adjusting the rings on the float stems or quills, as will be understood.

It is designed that the end convolution of the ring under which the line is passed shall have tension adapted to clamp the line, and thereby support the ring on the line against accidental slipping movement and which shall also be adapted to clamp the line against the float-stems when the ring is placed thereon, and thereby hold the float to its affixed adjustment, all of which will be understood upon reference to Fig. 1 of my drawings.

In Figs 4 and 5 the ring is shown constructed with an eye C, similar to the circular eye A, (illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,) save but the eye-opening through which the line is passed is flattened or made slit-like, adapted to receive the line and at the same time provide gripping engagement adapted to hold the ring against accidental slipping movement on the line when the rings are on the float-stems in use or as normally carried on the line detached from the float-stems.

In Figs. 6 and 7 the means for fastening the ring on the line is shown for med into a double loop or S-shaped bend D, Whose ends lie flat or in line with the ring convolutions, and its middle portion is curved outwardly from the ring, forming a loop or eye E,

adapted to clamp an inserted fishing-line against the adjacent portion of the fasteningrlng.

The loop or eye F shown by Figs. 8 and 9 serves to clamp the fishing-line the same as the form of loop or eye shown by Figs. 6 and 7 but it consists merely of an outward curve in one ring.

The construction of my invention will be understood from the above description.

The broad idea or novelty of my invention is a fishing-float ring peculiarly constructed,

adapting it to be attached to and carried on the line ready for instant attachment of the float, the ring being constructed to be affixed to the line against accidental movement, as l hereinbefore described.

The form of ring just described is made for attachment of the line, as will be understood, and it is comprehended in the broad scope of my invention.

I claim 1. A fish-line-attaching device, consisting of helical coils of Wire, one intermediate coil thereof being bent, forming an eye adapted to receive the line and hold it clamped against adjacent coils of the device- 2. A fish-line-attaching device, comprising a ring constructed of helical coils of wire, a projecting loop in one intermediate coil, the loop being adapted to receive the line and hold it clamped against the other coils of the device.

3. A fishline-attaching device, comprising a ring constructed of helical coils of Wire one intermediate coil of the ring being bent into a loop made projecting beyond the outer cylindrical side of the ring.

WILLIAM SPENCER PET-T18, JR.

Witnesses:

J. M. MOGLARTHERY, M. L. SIMPsoN'. 

